Lots Of 'O's In A Lovely Language

Te amo
I love you

Te quiero
I want you

Te necesito
I need you

Yo te perdio a un otro
I lost you to another

Dios por que lo occurio
Why did it happen

Por si acaso estaba solamente un sueno
Perhaps It was only a dream

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Understanding women

You can’t
And you won’t
So don’t even try

You’ll never understand them
Not til the day
That you die

It’s a pointless endeavour
Useless to try to comprehend
You’ll understand them never

So don’t even try!

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It's good to be a weasel

Proud eagles fly high
Oe’r land and sea
Upon majestic, wide wings tipped
with finger-like pinions

Soaring Condors…Geese…no luckier
creatures seem to be
Yet it’s weasels that ne’er get sucked
into jet engines

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Not What I Used To Be

All am I now
Is poetry

The man I used to be
Is now… no longer me

Not sure if I'm a captive
Nor sure if I've been set free

Nor do I quite see…
How it's now come to be

But all I am now…
And all I'll ever be

Is poetry

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Random Encounters

Random encounters…
Chance meetings
Life changers
Unexpected greetings

Interrupters of life
Uncaring guests
Random encounters
At their very best

Devices of change
Creators of strife
Random encounters are…
The spice of life

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Boredom

When I used to get bored
I would count my teeth

And I used to do that
without A lick of shame…

But now I do something far, far worse
Of which I’m truuuuly ashamed

For I’ve started giving….
Each tooth it’s own name

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Don't

Don’t let me know
When you’ve thought it over

Forget to tell me when
You’re ready to change back

Let it slip your mind
When you’re ready to surprise me

Because I don’t want to be Here…
when you want to come back

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Spring Soliloquy to Allergy

Powdered gold of pollen
Hanging lazily in the sun

Shaken loose from pungent blossoms
Gilding silken webs…newly spun

Tis the fairy dust
Of the newborn season

And the most likely reason
For all my sneezing’

…Spring…

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Believe In Magic

A good part of magic
Is in the believing
And the magic of believing
Is in itself quite magical as well

Believing there is no magic…
No wondrous illusion
Well, I believe, without any delusion
That that… would be tragic as hell

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White Rose

Lonely white rose…
Untended meadows

Deserted garden
Sigh in the wind

Quiet of surrender
Leavened with sorrow

Bees and pollen
Dance together again

Lonely white rose…
Petals pristine

Blooming so proudly
Unseen …yet serene

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